by New Worker correspondent
MEMBERS and supporters of the Communist
Party of Bangladesh (UK Branch) held a May Day Red Flag Rally and Ganasangeet
cultural programme at the Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel, East London on 1st
May.
In a statement
the organisers said: “In Tower Hamlets this event has gone unrecognised for a
long time,” and recalled that that the female workers of the Bryant May Match
Factory in Bow went on strike in 1888 in protest against the sacking of a
worker and the awful conditions of work.
“As Tower
Hamlets is also the centre of the Bangladeshi diaspora, we want to fuse the
struggles of the working class in Bangladesh with those in Tower Hamlets and
have decided to hold an annual event on 1st May.”
The rally was
followed by performances by artistes from Udichi Shilpi Ghosti and Satyen Sen
School of Performing Arts. The Altab Ali Park commemorates a 25-year-old
Bangladeshi clothing worker who was murdered nearby in 1978 in a racist attack.
The stage shown
in the picture is the Shaheed Minar, a smaller replica of the one in Dhaka,
Bangladesh which symbolises a mother and her martyred sons.
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